The Comedy of Errors, National Theatre, London
Sex, spending, violence and debt: life in the city is lived raw, in this caustic interpretation of Shakespeare's comedy by Dominic Cooke. The setting is grimy, graffiti-daubed; shiny apartme…
Sex, spending, violence and debt: life in the city is lived raw, in this caustic interpretation of Shakespeare's comedy by Dominic Cooke. The setting is grimy, graffiti-daubed; shiny apartme…
First come the strip-lit corridors, the stained breezeblocks, the locked doors; later there are restraints, drugs, needles. The time is out of joint, and we are all imprisoned in a nightmare…
"Smackhead, groin doctor and smut-scribe": that's one way in which writer Mikhail Bulgakov is described in John Hodge's debut stage drama.read more
"Go home. This is not your business. This is not your war." So a Congolese warlord tells Sadhbh, an Irish human-rights defender, in Stella Feehily's new drama for Out of Joint. Has the arrog…
"A simple story of everyday life in a big city, a story of love and passion and greed and death." That was how Kurt Weill described Elmer Rice's 1929 play, Street Scene, set on the front sto…
It may not serve up all that much to get your teeth into, but Bijan Sheibani's production of this 1959 play by Arnold Wesker looks fantastic on the plate. Giles Cadle's saucepan-shaped set i…
A monolithic slab, like a giant incarnation of a Biblical tablet of stone, dominates Mark Thompson's set for Jamie Lloyd's production of the third play by Alexi Kaye Campbell. Nothing e…